Rifan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries

/rˈifan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Rifan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ALAlbania1 in 37K
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 233K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈16,000 people, est.

Record sources
104 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Indonesia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Rifan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Rifan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈16,000 est.≈1 in 17K—Rifan104
AL Albania841 in 37K84——
MY Malaysia≈47 est.≈1 in 692K—Rifan11
US United States≈13 est.≈1 in 25M7Rifan14
IT Italy≈9 est.≈1 in 7M1—2
XK Kosovo≈8 est.≈1 in 233K7—1
SG Singapore≈7 est.≈1 in 833K—Rifan6

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Rifan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Australia, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Rif'An

  • Portuguese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Türkiye

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Rifän

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Rifan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of rifar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHalo Rifan,Hi Rifan, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Rifan?
A machine transcription gives /rˈifan/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
Is Rifan a male or female name?
Rifan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Rifan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Rifan in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rifan.
How common is the name Rifan?
In Albania, the national register counted 84 people named Rifan, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rifan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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